This time, the senior actor tweeted that he hoped for a repeat of the moment when Sourav Ganguly took off his shirt in the Lord’s balcony after India beat England in the Natwest final in 2002.
Kapoor tweeted, "Waiting for a repeat of Sourav Ganguly's act on the balcony of The Lords Ground,London,when India beat England 2002 NatWest series final! YO (sic)."
Pretty soon he was getting trolled on Twitter.
“Sir they are not cheap Bollywood people to do such vulgar things. Show some respect (sic),” read one tweet while another user wrote, “Sir I report this cheap tweet this is not culture I ask twitter Zuckerberg to suspend you tc (sic).”
Well, in this case he truly deserved the castigation. The tweet, which implied that Kapoor was waiting for the Indian team captain, Mithali Raj, to take off her shirt, was completely disrespectful.
Rishi soon tweeted an explanation. He wrote: "WHAT WRONG HAVE I SAID? I DIDNT SAY ANY FEMALE PLAYER SHOULD!I ONLY SAID SOURAV GANGULY SHOULD REPEAT HIS SHOW. YOU HAVE A WRONG MIND DEAR! (sic)."
But Sourav Ganguly has not been spotted Lord’s, so that explanation falls flat.
Regardless of what Rishi Kapoor’s wishes are, we hope that the women in blue bring home the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 and make all of us proud.
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